I have actually just finished writing my Undergraduate Dissertation on this topic, so thank you for the video to raise more awareness for this important part of our history! ❤
As a (white) Canadian, I only learned more about this in the last few years. Now I like to say that "Britain may have "perfected" slavery when they practiced it, but they stopped it earlier than almost any other nation in human history, and they stopped it HARD."
Thank you. A much needed reminder for the ignorant about Britain's role in trying to end something that had been going on by everyone, everwhere in the world and still is in places we're not allowed to enforce anymore
Exactly! Everybody was doing it largely because, well, everybody else was doing it. You gotta be REAL brave to step up and be one of the first to say no, AND ENFORCE IT
There's actually a very good recent book, "The Forgotten Slave Trade" which tells the story of Muslim Slave Trading from ancient times, tying in some very important global history, along with the fact that the Western slave triangle was a very minor part of a global story mostly involving Muslim Africans and with repercussions even to this day.
I know the British were active and dismantling the slave trade but I did not realize they had an entire Squadron dedicated to patrolling the waters off the Africa Coast. I really enjoyed this episode and enjoyed learning about the efforts to end this dehumanizing practice which remains a blight on our history to this day. The more things change the more the things stay the same. Kudos to you, amigo 👏 🙌 👍
Hi Harry, I liked your response and i agree that slavery is dehumanising and to a degree i agree that it is a " blight on our history". However if it is a blight on OUR history we must also accept that it is a blight on the history of just about every other nation/ civilisation throughout history. Slavery has been a fact of life for millenia, maybe not going back to the stone age but certainly since the bronze age. ( and sadly still existing today). To my knowledge the arabic slave trade involved more slaves than the transatlantic slave trade. The barbary pirates, the ottaman empire, and of course the worst of all the third reich and the japanese during ww2. It would be lovely to think that modern civilisation and ideas would finally lead to an end of slavery for all time. I did have a certain level of knowledge about the anti slavery squadrons ( ex RN) but i have always thought that since then the uk have been totally innocent and leaders in anti slavery but Chris dispelled that. I wish that more (so called) historians could present history in a level headed and unbiased way as chris does Respect
Much more than the African coast. The Royal Navy attempted to patrol against slavery on a global scale. A fascinating story involving enormous resources.
I’m so glad a video has been made about this topic. I’ve seen so many anti British comments and videos and I’ve noticed no one knows about this. William Wilberforce would be proud
Perhaps it might have been worth mentioning the Africans who volunteered to join the Royal Navy in the campaign against slavery. A notable tribe were the Kru. As coastal dwellers they were accomplished seamen and they knew what local slave traders where doing. They became conversant with offshore and long distance ocean sailing, so much so that when an RN ship lost almost the entire crew to tropical diseases they sailed the ship from West Africa all the way to Plymouth with the few survivors aboard. I have a book somewhere with the full story, I must dig it out. Probably in the North wing library of my extensive country seat.
Not only did they directly free a good number of slaves, they presumably prevented vastly more from being shipped. If a ship has meaningfully chance of being seized, then there will be vastly fewer ships taking the risk.
Why is this not taught in schools ? What of the East African slave trade and who were responsible in that area?. Royal Naval patrols still continued until the 1950's..
Wow! It seems there is so much adverse publicity about Britain's involvement in the slave trade that our involvement in ending the slave trade goes largely unrecognised and forgotten. Well done ! Another historical tale, well told !!
Back in the 19th century, the island of Fernando Po was a Spanish colony. The British leased the island from Spain and named the port city of Malabo as Clarence. Turn the clock forward to the 1960's, British author Frederick Forsyth was staying at the Bahia hotel, which sits on the cliff above Malabo port, to take inspiration for his novel "The Dogs of War". The capital city of Forsyth's book is a town called...Clarence
Thanks for another fine feature! A.E. Rooks "The Black Joke" is an excellent book on this subject. And on the wider point, whilst the WAS might "only" have liberated 5% of the enslaved Africans transported across the Atlantic, the very fact that the Britain was willing to use its (at the time) peerless navy to fight the trade was the critical factor in making it unviable and ultimately leading to its end.
Excellent video. But I think you downplay the significant at the end. THe numbers liberated was small, but they deterrent effect was complete. They only had to catch enough slavers to make sure the slavers business model was too risky.
A proud moment in our history. Especially, considering that all our ancestors (assuming you aren’t of an oligarchic bloodline) were once highly abused slaves, serfs and workers. A situation which only really changed in the 18th/19th/20th centuries, i.e. relatively recently. Of course, I’m talking about ethnic British white people. Although, the same was the case in most European countries. I see a real risk that a new form of totalitarian feudalism (fascism) a’la digitalization / transhumanism may be around the corner. Oppose all such oligarchic moves - like our ancestors did. God bless!
USS Constellation, now a museum ship in Baltimore Harbor, participated in the anti-slavery patrols with the West Africa Squadron. They share their part of the mission onboard.
Wasn't aware of the scale of this noble endeavor. Glory to the 1600 sailors who gave their lives and glory to mr. Green for this video, puting this feat on the tube.
One of my country cousins George commanded HMS Glendower and HMS Victor for three years in West African Squadron….. he had a tough time of it. Some reports put the British death rate higher than you report. Thank you for another excellent video cheers Tony
Chris, again another great video on aspects not always looked at, personally I think the numbers are irrelevant, yes slavery is bad, but we stood alone against the tide and that's the bit always forgetting in the mainstream narrative, we stood alone against the world and said no
Yes, we in Britain paid our "Reparations" in blood, as well as paying to free all Slaves in the British Empire, a debt the British tax did not finish paying until 2015. The money grubbers in London should be told that and to hell with apologies.
@@user-ok1el9mg4h You really make me laugh, in those days nobody in the working classes got compensated for anything. Reparations is just blacks with a begging bowl after white guilt money for something they never suffered. This only works on Snowflake Liberals.
Not sure it is a difficult subject. An important subject yes. Why school children seem to be forced to memorize dates and Henry VIII's wives when there is so much world changing stuff that Britain did (good and bad) is beyond me.
Thank you for sharing this history and the nuance involved in it. It’s always lovely to hear about the lesser-known stories of the human experience and its interactions around the world
The King of Dahomey is a good read on this subject. Another area of forgotten history and my current read is Matthew Taylor's " The Black Redcoats." regarding the mayhem caused when the British Royal Navy had a policy of recruiting African American Slaves during it's war with America in 1812.
Good idea to do a video on this Chris! Fascinating topic! If I may make a request, I'd love to hear a more detailed story on the journey of Dr. William Brydon out of Kabul in January 1842 the 'only survivor" of the British army made famous in Lady Elizabeth Butlers painting "remnants of an army." Thanks for the videos.
Glad you found it interesting. It tends to polarise opinion - a great humanitarian effort v too little too late. As I said in the video, history is all about perspectives.
@@TheHistoryChap too little too late? It effectively ended slavery within the scope of Europe/America. The arabs and africams have contjnued unabated to this day though; if anything it was setting an example other cultures chose to ignore.
Those who wanted to keep trading slaves: "Why should we stop because you say so Britain?!" Britain: "We asked nicely, next it'll be gunboat diplomacy. Choose wisely."
@TheHistoryChap My pleasure sir. Thanks for the video on Robert Clive. Personally as an Indian, I consider him to be a bad and corrupt person, who set a very strong foundation of British rule. I did read earlier that he became rich (nabob), and did face a trial on his corruption in Britian, but not all the details.
Excellent video Slavery is a crime against humanity. Whatever your views about the British 🇬🇧Empire, only the British intervention could have stopped the slave trade. The Portuguese Empire, Spanish Empire, American Empire 🇺🇸. French Empire were extremely powerful. The overwhelming RN victory at Trafalgar had a direct result.
God bless you for this. I saw a mini-series on the RN where the history of the RN's fight against the slave trade and was fascinated. No surprise the name, Wilberforce, became a very common name for boys in the 19th century. Interesting fact: The slave trade to Brazil was the liveliest in the world because evey year the slaves brought over the year before were all dead from over work. So they needed a fresh crop. And plantation houses in Brazil had an intersting feature. Every wall that didn't have a window had a mirror facing it, so the planters could see rebellious slaves coming in time to get out.
Thank you for this excellent video. I think you've struck a good balance in what is a contentious topic in the UK at the moment, especially spelling out that the heroism of the Royal Navy in ending the slave trade has to be weighed against the massive number of slaves Britain traded. The left wing in Britain has a tendency to ignore the pivotal (and largely selfless) role we played in abolishing the slave trade, but the right wing also has a tendency to try to shut down debate about the ongoing legacy of the slave trade by pointing to this effort and refusing to accept that slavery is still an issue Britain has to face 200 years on. In my view, both sides are wrong, but the right wing is more disingenuous. Certainly, Britain did the right thing liberating slaves, but as you say, our efforts stopped with liberation. It was not in the mentality of people in the 1830s to consider the ongoing economic, social, and racial legacy of the slave trade. Whilst it is easy to portray the argument for compensation for former colonies and enslaved peoples as a Woke talking point, I think if you took those people who so heroically abolished slavery two centuries ago and put them in modern Britain, armed them with modern knowledge and understanding of the legacy of slavery, they would be on the side of those who argue for such compensation. It is certainly in the spirit of what they did. The point is not to sit on our laurels, but to continue to ask ourselves what we can do to destroy slavery and its evil effects. That doesn't mean we bear some extra guilt no one else bears, but it does mean we continue to be the first to hold ourselves to account for what we have done.
It's not the statistical number of slaves that were released that is most impressive. It was, for the first time in human civilisation, a country decided it was unethical and struck out alone to stop it. Yet, sadly there are more slaves in Africa today than there ever were in the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Thank you for your work, your part in exposing a tragic history indeed. I wonder if the following info is widely known. "The Law of 4 February 1794 (16 pluviôse year II) was a decree of the French National Convention which abolished slavery in all French colonies." I found it in Wikipedia, where the first French republic's is well covered. Sad to relate, but the law was revoked by Boney, whose wife advocated for the merchants and plantation owners. Moreover, he did not want the example of a state of freed slaves to antagonise GB because it might have inspired other slave revolts. One of the heroes of the time was General Toussaint Louverture, an heroic African man who became the first leader to lay the grounds of defeat of a Napoleonic army. A man worthy of a movie or a miniseries. He was treacherously captured during a parley and sent to France where he perished in prison.
Thanks so much for taking the time to share. You are absolutely right that the French republic abolished slavery only for Boney to re-instate it. Louverture was an incredible leader. Such a shame that Haiti has struggled so much in recent years.
Hello again! Great job with the video. I see you made some changes with your editing. A good story filled with horror and great accomplishments. When Britain decided to ban slave trade in 1807, that same year America passed a ban on slave imports in turn. Thanks for sharing the fact about Lincoln allowing British ships to stop American ships suspected of carrying slaves, how very kind of him! I had not known that before. There is a movie by Steven Spielberg that delves into the subject about the slave trade and the efforts to free them called Amistad which I strongly recommend. We must keep history alive for the sake of all.
Yea Royal Navy. Bravo Zulu (Well Done). Chris, if you ever find yourself in need of a video on short notice, I would love a tour of your bookcase. I enjoyed Happy Odyssey, the autobiography of Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart.
Here in NZ I love pointing out to people on Waitangi day that as well as being the day we became a dominion of Britain it is also national slave emancipation day. Excited for your upcoming New Zealand wars episode but I'd suggest covering the musket wars first. #paxbritainica
The British Government/Navy turned a blind eye to the coffin ships that left Ireland during the Great Famine. These ships weren't fit for purpose and were often overloaded. To avoid scrutiny by American Authorities, these ships headed for Canada which at that time was under British control. Let's do a video about that shameful period.
It is an important, yet oft forgotten, fact that a major reason why Britain formed its Navy was the defence against slavers. At the time, African Muslim slavers were raiding Europe, Scandinavia and the Balkans to capture slaves. Britain, France and the Netherlands, even Iceland, were targets for the Muslims. But, for Britain at least, the formation of what would eventually become the Royal Navy made attacks on the British Isles too risky. Hence we have the famous chorus in Rule Britannia, "Britons never, never, never shall be slaves". Kind of ironic that a white British navy would eventually become the main force opposing global slavery, and freeing black African slaves around the whole world.
After Britain banned the transatlantic slabe trade it actually carried on but was island natives,indians,chinese,etc. it was called "balckbirding". In Australia a royal navy captain was prosecired for illegal seizure after he stopped and impounded a vessel used in the trade
Her's a comment for the algorithm. It's interesting for me because slavery was illegal in Australia for most of it's European settlement history, there is not much knowledge about it. Most of what is known is from American movies. When it was legal there were convicts. The ongoing social effects of slavery are not here like the US. There are circumstances of illegal slavery but rare, and not a part of any formal education that I received. I'm not saying that European settlement in Australia was all good, being a convict or Aboriginal was not good a lot of time; but still not slavery.
perhaps you could do a video on the Royal Navy´s suppression of the Indian Ocean slave trade and the career of young midshipman Roger Keyes, who changed World History towards the end of his career of public service in the Norway Debate
Fascinating as a Baltimorean we celebrate our Baltimore Clippers (i.e. the reconstructed Pride of Baltimore) i was unaware of their prevalence in the slave trade.
Very interesting video, Chris, about an argument that before i know only in general. It is interesting to note that 250 years ago most of the human society accepted ( in a form or in another ) slavery and today almost no any. An inpressing and positive changing , in my opinion. Bye and stay well!
The Royal Navy was featured in the Steven Spielberg film "Amistad." As for the battle in parliament to end the slave trade, watch the movie "Amazing Grace", with Benedict Cumberbatch and Ioan Griffud.
Britain was joined by all of Europe except for Portugal. It was joined by the U.S. in 1808. There is a great 1930s film about the collaboration on the Atlantic titled, "Souls at Sea." It's worth seeing and a reminder that once most people knew about this. The ban was also the reason why sailing ship design advanced so quickly. There was a large challenge to the ban using faster ships to outrun the patrols. Once on land, there was no way to know where the salve came from.
Great video, I agree, any degree of good doing is a good thing! Also, they will have had a political effect, which may have made the end of slavery to the Americas quicker than otherwise may have been.
St Helena was used by the Africa squadron to store liberated slaves put in very bad conditions. Most dyed their. The Garifuna a tribe of escape African slaves mixed with amerindians on st Vincent were rounded up and put on a very small island where many start and the reminder transported to the coast of Honduras.
Great vid, thanks. Britain was no better or worse than any other country at slavery. However once Britain set its mind and resources against slavery other countries were made to followed.
What is often missed when we look at the 150 000 slaves freed is the fact the trade was stopped, how many millions did not become slaves due to this action taken. How many more years would slavery have been seen as a legitimate trade? 10, 20, 60 or 100, maybe we would have still been blighted today, after all its still out there today, just hidden in what is termed traditional roles and practice's or labelled "trafficking".
But even poor Flashy and the odious John Charity Spring ran afoul of a "dandy" American sloop going from Cuba to New Orleans with girls for the brothels. "Flash For Freedom" is a tale of Flash meeting Abe Lincoln. His description of meeting King Gezo of Dahomey (I cannot repeat Harry's description of the king).
Sadly the British were guilty of enslaving their own impoverished people in the form of transportation to Australia starting in 1788 the establishment of the Port Jackson penal colony ( Sydney ). Those poor souls transported on the First and Second fleet being the lucky ones as they were facilitated by the Royal navy. The later merchant captains being paid by the number of convicts loaded and NOT by the number that arrived in Australia in good health cared little for the wellbeing of their human cargo, only in maximising their profit.
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Many folks are not aware of this British effort. You are doing a good service informing those willing to learn about this history.
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I have actually just finished writing my Undergraduate Dissertation on this topic, so thank you for the video to raise more awareness for this important part of our history! ❤
All the best with your dissertation.
I'd love to read that James....wow!
As a (white) Canadian, I only learned more about this in the last few years.
Now I like to say that "Britain may have "perfected" slavery when they practiced it, but they stopped it earlier than almost any other nation in human history, and they stopped it HARD."
Thank you. A much needed reminder for the ignorant about Britain's role in trying to end something that had been going on by everyone, everwhere in the world and still is in places we're not allowed to enforce anymore
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@@TheHistoryChap AI response ! The comment was not about that. Bravo
Exactly! Everybody was doing it largely because, well, everybody else was doing it.
You gotta be REAL brave to step up and be one of the first to say no, AND ENFORCE IT
Thanks Chris, we Africans were just as guilty for the slave trade as anyone else, something usually omitted from history
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There's actually a very good recent book, "The Forgotten Slave Trade" which tells the story of Muslim Slave Trading from ancient times, tying in some very important global history, along with the fact that the Western slave triangle was a very minor part of a global story mostly involving Muslim Africans and with repercussions even to this day.
I know the British were active and dismantling the slave trade but I did not realize they had an entire Squadron dedicated to patrolling the waters off the Africa Coast. I really enjoyed this episode and enjoyed learning about the efforts to end this dehumanizing practice which remains a blight on our history to this day. The more things change the more the things stay the same. Kudos to you, amigo 👏 🙌 👍
Hi Harry,
I liked your response and i agree that slavery is dehumanising and to a degree i agree that it is a " blight on our history". However if it is a blight on OUR history we must also accept that it is a blight on the history of just about every other nation/ civilisation throughout history. Slavery has been a fact of life for millenia, maybe not going back to the stone age but certainly since the bronze age. ( and sadly still existing today). To my knowledge the arabic slave trade involved more slaves than the transatlantic slave trade. The barbary pirates, the ottaman empire, and of course the worst of all the third reich and the japanese during ww2. It would be lovely to think that modern civilisation and ideas would finally lead to an end of slavery for all time. I did have a certain level of knowledge about the anti slavery squadrons ( ex RN) but i have always thought that since then the uk have been totally innocent and leaders in anti slavery but Chris dispelled that. I wish that more (so called) historians could present history in a level headed and unbiased way as chris does
Respect
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Much more than the African coast. The Royal Navy attempted to patrol against slavery on a global scale. A fascinating story involving enormous resources.
I’m so glad a video has been made about this topic. I’ve seen so many anti British comments and videos and I’ve noticed no one knows about this.
William Wilberforce would be proud
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Perhaps it might have been worth mentioning the Africans who volunteered to join the Royal Navy in the campaign against slavery.
A notable tribe were the Kru. As coastal dwellers they were accomplished seamen and they knew what local slave traders where doing.
They became conversant with offshore and long distance ocean sailing, so much so that when an RN ship lost almost the entire crew to tropical diseases they sailed the ship from West Africa all the way to Plymouth with the few survivors aboard.
I have a book somewhere with the full story, I must dig it out. Probably in the North wing library of my extensive country seat.
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Best keep your books in the library,,
I lost some due to the failing moat!
This should be in the National Curriculum.
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100% agree, they are quick to tell the other side,I think it's a case of don't let the truth get in way of a good story.
@@TheHistoryChap thank you for doing it
Not only did they directly free a good number of slaves, they presumably prevented vastly more from being shipped. If a ship has meaningfully chance of being seized, then there will be vastly fewer ships taking the risk.
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Didn't realise that YT count down would last this long!
Why is this not taught in schools ? What of the East African slave trade and who were responsible in that area?. Royal Naval patrols still continued until the 1950's..
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What a superb and well balanced way of explaining this very delicate subject. Respect Chris
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Wow! It seems there is so much adverse publicity about Britain's involvement in the slave trade that our involvement in ending the slave trade goes largely unrecognised and forgotten.
Well done ! Another historical tale, well told !!
Back in the 19th century, the island of Fernando Po was a Spanish colony. The British leased the island from Spain and named the port city of Malabo as Clarence. Turn the clock forward to the 1960's, British author Frederick Forsyth was staying at the Bahia hotel, which sits on the cliff above Malabo port, to take inspiration for his novel "The Dogs of War". The capital city of Forsyth's book is a town called...Clarence
fascinating. I didn't know where that was where FF got his inspiration for that book from.
Thanks for another fine feature! A.E. Rooks "The Black Joke" is an excellent book on this subject. And on the wider point, whilst the WAS might "only" have liberated 5% of the enslaved Africans transported across the Atlantic, the very fact that the Britain was willing to use its (at the time) peerless navy to fight the trade was the critical factor in making it unviable and ultimately leading to its end.
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Excellent video. But I think you downplay the significant at the end. THe numbers liberated was small, but they deterrent effect was complete. They only had to catch enough slavers to make sure the slavers business model was too risky.
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A proud moment in our history. Especially, considering that all our ancestors (assuming you aren’t of an oligarchic bloodline) were once highly abused slaves, serfs and workers. A situation which only really changed in the 18th/19th/20th centuries, i.e. relatively recently. Of course, I’m talking about ethnic British white people. Although, the same was the case in most European countries. I see a real risk that a new form of totalitarian feudalism (fascism) a’la digitalization / transhumanism may be around the corner. Oppose all such oligarchic moves - like our ancestors did. God bless!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Yes, we forget that Anglo-Saxon England had a large indigenous slave population.
In the Royal Navy Museum in Portsmouth I saw a figurehead that used to be on a ship that hunted illegal slavers: it was the head of a happy black man.
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Fascinating and Illuminating!!!!
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USS Constellation, now a museum ship in Baltimore Harbor, participated in the anti-slavery patrols with the West Africa Squadron. They share their part of the mission onboard.
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An excellent and well balance piece of work. Thanks.
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Wasn't aware of the scale of this noble endeavor. Glory to the 1600 sailors who gave their lives and glory to mr. Green for this video, puting this feat on the tube.
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One of my country cousins George commanded HMS Glendower and HMS Victor for three years in West African Squadron….. he had a tough time of it. Some reports put the British death rate higher than you report. Thank you for another excellent video cheers Tony
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Chris, again another great video on aspects not always looked at, personally I think the numbers are irrelevant, yes slavery is bad, but we stood alone against the tide and that's the bit always forgetting in the mainstream narrative, we stood alone against the world and said no
Very good point.
Yes, we in Britain paid our "Reparations" in blood, as well as paying to free all Slaves in the British Empire, a debt the British tax did not finish paying until 2015. The money grubbers in London should be told that and to hell with apologies.
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You left out the critical detail: the slave-owners were compensated, not the slaves. Mr. Drax, MP, is grateful for that.
You are omitting the critical point: the slave owners were compensated, not the slaves.
@@user-ok1el9mg4h You really make me laugh, in those days nobody in the working classes got compensated for anything. Reparations is just blacks with a begging bowl after white guilt money for something they never suffered. This only works on Snowflake Liberals.
Great work Prof Green!
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Fascinating upload on a rather difficult subject. Thanks for the video
Ha ha, I like to keep you on your toes. Glad you enjoyed it.
Not sure it is a difficult subject. An important subject yes. Why school children seem to be forced to memorize dates and Henry VIII's wives when there is so much world changing stuff that Britain did (good and bad) is beyond me.
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Very good most interesting.
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Well put together and clearly laid out with succinct narrative 👍👏👌
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Absolutely fantastic. Thank you so much for sharing this. I hope Nigel Farage sees this, he has mentioned this recently. And God bless you 🙏
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Thank you for sharing this history and the nuance involved in it. It’s always lovely to hear about the lesser-known stories of the human experience and its interactions around the world
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The King of Dahomey is a good read on this subject. Another area of forgotten history and my current read is Matthew Taylor's " The Black Redcoats." regarding the mayhem caused when the British Royal Navy had a policy of recruiting African American Slaves during it's war with America in 1812.
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Great to see you've got sponsorship Chris - well deserved! Keep up the great work
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Many thanks for this important bit of history!
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Good idea to do a video on this Chris! Fascinating topic! If I may make a request, I'd love to hear a more detailed story on the journey of Dr. William Brydon out of Kabul in January 1842 the 'only survivor" of the British army made famous in Lady Elizabeth Butlers painting "remnants of an army." Thanks for the videos.
I did one about Gandamak a couple of years ago so maybe it is time to revisit.
I'm reading a book about the British West Indian Regiments just now. I think it might make a good source for some videos.
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Brilliant Chris
Important to remember this and the part we played
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Hi Chris, well told story one I really didn't know anything about. Thank you
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The 1807's british Law against slavery thanks to that great Protestant Anglican parlamentarian William Wilberforce.
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Good lecture Chris👍👍👍
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nine minutes in and the guy third from left on the bottom is like "Oooooh, I wonder what cool things we're gonna do"
That is thought provoking. I was not aware of the extent of the RN operation. Thank you.
Glad you found it interesting. It tends to polarise opinion - a great humanitarian effort v too little too late. As I said in the video, history is all about perspectives.
@@TheHistoryChap too little too late? It effectively ended slavery within the scope of Europe/America. The arabs and africams have contjnued unabated to this day though; if anything it was setting an example other cultures chose to ignore.
I have actually been to the quarantine station and cemetery at "Comfortless Cove", on Ascencion Island.
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Informative, succinct, entertaining, as always. Thanks Chris..
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Another outstanding video 👏
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Those who wanted to keep trading slaves: "Why should we stop because you say so Britain?!"
Britain: "We asked nicely, next it'll be gunboat diplomacy. Choose wisely."
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Lovely video, sir.
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Thanks for the video on Robert Clive. Personally as an Indian, I consider him to be a bad and corrupt person, who set a very strong foundation of British rule.
I did read earlier that he became rich (nabob), and did face a trial on his corruption in Britian, but not all the details.
A wonderful and inspiring presentation, Chris - well done, again.
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Excellent video
Slavery is a crime against humanity.
Whatever your views about the British 🇬🇧Empire, only the British intervention could have stopped the slave trade.
The Portuguese Empire, Spanish Empire, American Empire 🇺🇸. French Empire were extremely powerful.
The overwhelming RN victory at Trafalgar had a direct result.
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Another great video!
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Thanks again, History Chap. I avidly check out all your videos and this was another great one.
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God bless you for this. I saw a mini-series on the RN where the history of the RN's fight against the slave trade and was fascinated. No surprise the name, Wilberforce, became a very common name for boys in the 19th century.
Interesting fact: The slave trade to Brazil was the liveliest in the world because evey year the slaves brought over the year before were all dead from over work. So they needed a fresh crop. And plantation houses in Brazil had an intersting feature. Every wall that didn't have a window had a mirror facing it, so the planters could see rebellious slaves coming in time to get out.
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This is a wonderful video and more people needs to watch this, The UK ended slavery and also made sure other European powers did not practice it.
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thanks for a good video keep them coming good but it sad it took 60 year to stop slavery
Indeed it was...apart from the sad fact that Britain & others originally embraced it with such enthusiasm.
Thank you for this excellent video. I think you've struck a good balance in what is a contentious topic in the UK at the moment, especially spelling out that the heroism of the Royal Navy in ending the slave trade has to be weighed against the massive number of slaves Britain traded. The left wing in Britain has a tendency to ignore the pivotal (and largely selfless) role we played in abolishing the slave trade, but the right wing also has a tendency to try to shut down debate about the ongoing legacy of the slave trade by pointing to this effort and refusing to accept that slavery is still an issue Britain has to face 200 years on.
In my view, both sides are wrong, but the right wing is more disingenuous. Certainly, Britain did the right thing liberating slaves, but as you say, our efforts stopped with liberation. It was not in the mentality of people in the 1830s to consider the ongoing economic, social, and racial legacy of the slave trade. Whilst it is easy to portray the argument for compensation for former colonies and enslaved peoples as a Woke talking point, I think if you took those people who so heroically abolished slavery two centuries ago and put them in modern Britain, armed them with modern knowledge and understanding of the legacy of slavery, they would be on the side of those who argue for such compensation. It is certainly in the spirit of what they did.
The point is not to sit on our laurels, but to continue to ask ourselves what we can do to destroy slavery and its evil effects. That doesn't mean we bear some extra guilt no one else bears, but it does mean we continue to be the first to hold ourselves to account for what we have done.
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This is why Britain is great.
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very well done on the sponsorship (you are a real TH-camr now!) - Great and very interesting video - I did not know about the American permissions
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Narinder & Shola should be sent this to watch!
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It's not the statistical number of slaves that were released that is most impressive. It was, for the first time in human civilisation, a country decided it was unethical and struck out alone to stop it. Yet, sadly there are more slaves in Africa today than there ever were in the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
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The Royal Navy anti-slavery patrols were based. In the former Royal Navy Dockyard at Bermuda ….built mostly by British convict labour.
The West Africa Squadron was based out of Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Thank you for your work, your part in exposing a tragic history indeed. I wonder if the following info is widely known. "The Law of 4 February 1794 (16 pluviôse year II) was a decree of the French National Convention which abolished slavery in all French colonies."
I found it in Wikipedia, where the first French republic's is well covered. Sad to relate, but the law was revoked by Boney, whose wife advocated for the merchants and plantation owners. Moreover, he did not want the example of a state of freed slaves to antagonise GB because it might have inspired other slave revolts. One of the heroes of the time was General Toussaint Louverture, an heroic African man who became the first leader to lay the grounds of defeat of a Napoleonic army. A man worthy of a movie or a miniseries. He was treacherously captured during a parley and sent to France where he perished in prison.
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You are absolutely right that the French republic abolished slavery only for Boney to re-instate it.
Louverture was an incredible leader. Such a shame that Haiti has struggled so much in recent years.
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Hello again! Great job with the video. I see you made some changes with your editing. A good story filled with horror and great accomplishments. When Britain decided to ban slave trade in 1807, that same year America passed a ban on slave imports in turn. Thanks for sharing the fact about Lincoln allowing British ships to stop American ships suspected of carrying slaves, how very kind of him! I had not known that before. There is a movie by Steven Spielberg that delves into the subject about the slave trade and the efforts to free them called Amistad which I strongly recommend. We must keep history alive for the sake of all.
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Yea Royal Navy. Bravo Zulu (Well Done).
Chris, if you ever find yourself in need of a video on short notice, I would love a tour of your bookcase. I enjoyed Happy Odyssey, the autobiography of Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart.
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Hi Chris , whot great info on the slaves ... it`s great we tried to stop it .. Thank you Chris Hello from Yorkshire
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Here in NZ I love pointing out to people on Waitangi day that as well as being the day we became a dominion of Britain it is also national slave emancipation day. Excited for your upcoming New Zealand wars episode but I'd suggest covering the musket wars first. #paxbritainica
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The British Government/Navy turned a blind eye to the coffin ships that left Ireland during the Great Famine. These ships weren't fit for purpose and were often overloaded. To avoid scrutiny by American Authorities, these ships headed for Canada which at that time was under British control. Let's do a video about that shameful period.
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I just reread Flash for Freedom, excellent book if anyone hasn't read it
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It is an important, yet oft forgotten, fact that a major reason why Britain formed its Navy was the defence against slavers. At the time, African Muslim slavers were raiding Europe, Scandinavia and the Balkans to capture slaves. Britain, France and the Netherlands, even Iceland, were targets for the Muslims. But, for Britain at least, the formation of what would eventually become the Royal Navy made attacks on the British Isles too risky. Hence we have the famous chorus in Rule Britannia, "Britons never, never, never shall be slaves". Kind of ironic that a white British navy would eventually become the main force opposing global slavery, and freeing black African slaves around the whole world.
Indeed. Check out my video about those slavery raids around the English coastline by the Barbary pirates
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After Britain banned the transatlantic slabe trade it actually carried on but was island natives,indians,chinese,etc. it was called "balckbirding". In Australia a royal navy captain was prosecired for illegal seizure after he stopped and impounded a vessel used in the trade
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It's interesting for me because slavery was illegal in Australia for most of it's European settlement history, there is not much knowledge about it. Most of what is known is from American movies. When it was legal there were convicts. The ongoing social effects of slavery are not here like the US. There are circumstances of illegal slavery but rare, and not a part of any formal education that I received.
I'm not saying that European settlement in Australia was all good, being a convict or Aboriginal was not good a lot of time; but still not slavery.
fascinating perspective. Thanks for sharing.
perhaps you could do a video on the Royal Navy´s suppression of the Indian Ocean slave trade and the career of young midshipman Roger Keyes, who changed World History towards the end of his career of public service in the Norway Debate
Fascinating as a Baltimorean we celebrate our Baltimore Clippers (i.e. the reconstructed Pride of Baltimore) i was unaware of their prevalence in the slave trade.
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Thanks Chris was not aware of this part England paid in stoping the slave trrade. I found this very interesting keep up the good work.
Very interesting video, Chris, about an argument that before i know only in general.
It is interesting to note that 250 years ago most of the human society accepted ( in a form or in another ) slavery and today almost no any.
An inpressing and positive changing , in my opinion.
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The Royal Navy was featured in the Steven Spielberg film "Amistad." As for the battle in parliament to end the slave trade, watch the movie "Amazing Grace", with Benedict Cumberbatch and Ioan Griffud.
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Britain was joined by all of Europe except for Portugal. It was joined by the U.S. in 1808. There is a great 1930s film about the collaboration on the Atlantic titled, "Souls at Sea." It's worth seeing and a reminder that once most people knew about this. The ban was also the reason why sailing ship design advanced so quickly. There was a large challenge to the ban using faster ships to outrun the patrols. Once on land, there was no way to know where the salve came from.
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Great video, I agree, any degree of good doing is a good thing! Also, they will have had a political effect, which may have made the end of slavery to the Americas quicker than otherwise may have been.
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Yeah, the Portugese transported more than us, but not that many iirc, and they had a few hundred year head start.
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Great work but there are still those who are in denial of these facts because they don't fit their political agenda. Sad times indeed.
But then, why let FACTS get in the way of good conspiracies...?
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St Helena was used by the Africa squadron to store liberated slaves put in very bad conditions. Most dyed their.
The Garifuna a tribe of escape African slaves mixed with amerindians on st Vincent were rounded up and put on a very small island where many start and the reminder transported to the coast of Honduras.
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Can you also make a video on how the British got rid of the East African Slave Trade?
Great vid, thanks. Britain was no better or worse than any other country at slavery. However once Britain set its mind and resources against slavery other countries were made to followed.
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What is often missed when we look at the 150 000 slaves freed is the fact the trade was stopped, how many millions did not become slaves due to this action taken.
How many more years would slavery have been seen as a legitimate trade? 10, 20, 60 or 100, maybe we would have still been blighted today, after all its still out there today, just hidden in what is termed traditional roles and practice's or labelled "trafficking".
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But even poor Flashy and the odious John Charity Spring ran afoul of a "dandy" American sloop going from Cuba to New Orleans with girls for the brothels. "Flash For Freedom" is a tale of Flash meeting Abe Lincoln. His description of meeting King Gezo of Dahomey (I cannot repeat Harry's description of the king).
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You would be surprised to see who was on these ships. A lot of swarthy gentlemen.
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Ohhhh. Books are like clams! I didn’t know your weird bricks opened. I am always learning from you.
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Now a video of the East African Slave Trade please. Let's hear about Livingstone, Kirk and Bartle-Frere
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There was an East African squadron as well.
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Sadly the British were guilty of enslaving their own impoverished people in the form of transportation to Australia starting in 1788 the establishment of the Port Jackson penal colony ( Sydney ).
Those poor souls transported on the First and Second fleet being the lucky ones as they were facilitated by the Royal navy.
The later merchant captains being paid by the number of convicts loaded and NOT by the number that arrived in Australia in good health cared little for the wellbeing of their human cargo, only in maximising their profit.
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Wilberforce gets much credit,rightly so but what of Grancille Sharpe who started the ball rolling?
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This should be taught to all the woke school teachers, and all the black and asian race baiters we see in the MSM.
Not a chance in hell
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